Portable fence



(No Model!) I J. M. KELLER.-

' 3 Portable Fence. No. 2 36,892. Patented Jan. 25,1881.

".PETEHS, PHOTD-UIIQOGHAPHER, WAShINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. KELLER, OF NEOGA, ILLINOIS.

PORTABLE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,892, dated January25, 1881.

Application filed December 6, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN M. KELLER, of Neoga, Cumberland county, Stateof .Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Ijm provements inPortable Fences, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is a portable fence, constructed, as fully describedhereinafter, to secure lightness, strength, ease in erecting andrigidity, and immobility when erected.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a section of my improvedfence. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line 1 2, Fig. 1, lookin gin the direction of the arrow; Fig. 3, a side view of one of thefence-section's, and Fig. 4 a plan. 1

The fence consists of panels A and their supporting devices, eachvertical post B consisting of two bars, each constituting one of thebars a c of a panel, the cross-bars c of which are nailed to thevertical'bars, as shown. The cross-bars have ends 9 projecting beyondthe vertical bars, and when two adjacent panels are placed in line theend bars, a a, thereof will be in .contact, and the ends 6 of thecrossbars will -hold the post-bars in line.

To prevent the fence. from falling laterally I use diagonal stays d d,each having its bearing on the ground at one side and against one of theposts beneath a cross-bar, as shown, the stays on opposite sides of thesame post being out of line, so that a cross-strip, I), passed throughthe post will bear against the stay cl on one side and against the stay11 on the other, thus preventing longitudinal movement of the fenceliable to occur when the fence is on an incline The division of eachpost into two bars renders available light inexpensive strips which havenot heretofore been considered serviceable for such purposes, andfurther permits the cutting, with an ax, of corresponding notches, whichconstitute the opening a", for the reception of the cross-piece D, thusavoiding the necessity of mortising with a chisel.

Greater permanency is secured, especially when the ground is soft andspongy, by means of base-strips I, notched to receive the ends of theposts, as shown, and the whole structure is bound together and stiifenedby a wire, it, (which may have barbs,) running through eyes at the topof the posts, and securely attached to the opposite end posts of thefence or section.

A ready mode of securing the wire is by staples u, and these are driveneach with its prongs into the ends of the opposite bars of the post, soas to aid in holding the two together.

The fence thus constructed is light, strong, d'urable, easily erected,stable and rigid when in place, and may be cheaply constructed oflighter materials than that usually employed.

I claim- 1. A portable fence the posts of which are composed each of twobars, of adjacent panels, each panelhaving cross-bars with projectingends 6, and the adjacent bars being notched to form an opening toreceive a cross-strip, D, as set forth.

2. The combination, in a portable panelfence, of divided posts B, ofstaples u, driven with one prong in each bar of the post, and a wire, t,extending through the staples and secured to the end posts of the fence,as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN M. KELLER.

Witnesses:

JAMES G. Hrcems, J. B. THOMPSON.

